Playing the song backwards

[ishu161]

i don't know if its been done before, and this sounded like fun, so i'll give it a go

yes we know all about stairway's satanic references....but there are also some other tracks that have been the subject of controversy because of some paranoid dudes playing 'em from all directions possible.

Imagine by John Lennon
Hotel California by the Eagles
and others...

i would post the youtube links but check this site out for both forward and backward songs, only the concerned parts (so you don't have to bang your head against the wall listening to giberish )

Stairway to Heaven Backwards (others are also here)

you can also view the lyrics both reverse and backwards..

just something funny...post if you have others like this

 

[Cosmic Harmony]

The term for this is "Backmasking" and some artists did it on purpose. Frank Zappa in particular used backmasking after the huge Tipper Gore ordeal over censorship.

 

[KISSFREAK]

You can use your sound recorder on your computer to reversing parts of songs, and if you have a microphone you can speak and record your voice then play it in reverse.

 

[ishu161]

yeah, but i don't think many were done this way...maybe some, to generate controversy, or maybe adding to the mystique of the sound, but in case of many songs, even though this technique is not used, but many parts strangely sound like they actually mean something...
i guess we want to finding meaning in everything...even nonsensical sounds

 

[ladyislingering]

One of my first brushes with backmasking was discovering the hidden message on Tommy James & The Shondells' "Crimson and Clover" LP.

I think it occurs at the end of "Smokey Roads" but the little message says (when played backwards)

"Extrapolate the quadruped and turn it into something nutritious. And, when the aurora rises in the heavens, I shall compensate thee amply" or something like that.

 

[Magic]

Pink Floyd has a backmasked message in "Goodbye Blue Sky" that says...'Congratulations, you have found the secret message'


Detour Through your Mind by The B-52’s
Message: “I buried my parakeet in the backyard. Oh no, you’re playing the record backwards. Watch out, you might ruin your needle.”


Fire On High by Electric Light Orchestra
Message: “The music is reversible, but time… (violin note) is not. Turn back! Turn back! Turn back! Turn back!”

 

[ishu161]

found something interesting...


****profanity ahead****

Ozzy Osbourne in No Rest For the Wicked - Bloodbath in Paradise, when played backwards, contains "Your mother sells whelks in Hull" - apparently a parody of The Exorcist, in which the possessed child screams "Your mother sucks cocks in hell."
<-- girl from The Exorcist

 

[Mr. T]

This thread made me think of an old joke...

Q. What happens when you play a country music record backwards?

A. You get back your wife, your job, your trailer and your dog!

 

[Harkat]

An old favourite of mine

 

[joe]

This thread made me think of an old joke...

Q. What happens when you play a country music record backwards?

A. You get back your wife, your job, your trailer and your dog!

I think alot of backmasking could be considered in the "placebo effect."